WTF?!?

[MadtownPacker]

Aynrand - Telling you how security works would defeat the purpose of having security. I hope you understand and if you dont then I cant help you.

The forum decided "no" to duplicate accounts and that is all the explaining that is gonna happen.

Like I said before, Antipolarbear was posting whatever he wanted. That is not why he was suspended.

If GBM and 007 where duplicate accounts they would be suspended too.

[Scott Campbell]

Whether you agree with it or not, the matter was put to a vote here at PR, and membership was overwhelmingly against posters using multiple accounts.

The people have spoken.

You're right. But that doesn't change my position that I haven't heard one good argument against multiple accounts.

The only good argument against multiple accounts you need to hear is that our membership voted against it. And that makes all other arguments irrelevent at this point.

I've been involved with decisions here that I didn't initially agree with too. But once the decision is made by the vote, or by Mad and the admins - I get on board and support the decision and the site because that's what is best for our community. The time to make a difference with your input/arguments is before the vote. When you complain about it afterwards, it just sounds like sour grapes. It's counter productive.

I suggest you adopt a pet cause that is more constructive. We've wasted enough time on this. It's no big deal, and certainly not worth arguing over.

IMO

[RashanGary]

Did I have duplicate accounts Mad?

My wife said she was unable to make an account. She tried.

[mraynrand]

It compromises the integrity of everyone on this forum when people go ahead and create multiple accounts. If you are too much of a coward to state an opinion from your trusted user account and have to go create another account to either state that opinion or back up the opinion from your trusted user account that is being a candy ass. Something that Tank did on 10 times with his "other" accounts. That is a total lack of integrity and alowing something like that to continue will in the long term wreck the integrity and respect of this forum.

I think this is a reasonable argument, but it still assumes that someone would be setting up multiple accounts for nefarious purposes. I don't buy the argument that this must be so, and I still maintain that if someone were using multiple names just for fun, and wasn't being nasty mean-spirited, or violating forum behaviour rules, it wouldn't necessarily compromise the 'integrity' of the forum. For example, if I wanted a login as "Cliff Cristl" (or Cleft Crusty) to give viewpoints from 'Cliff's' perspective, I think that would be much more fun than logging in as Mraynrand and saying "Cliff Cristl would say...." What would be the harm in that?

[MadtownPacker]

Did I have duplicate accounts Mad?

My wife said she was unable to make an account. She tried.

If she used a bogus email is was deleted. Lucky for you cuz if she read the way you talked about women she would have kicked your ass!

[GBRulz]

GBrulz, sorry if i'm "Stirring" the pot. But if it bothers you that I wondered where tank was, and asked, and than told HIS side of the story, if that pissed you off, you are just sensitive.

No, it doesn't bother me that you asked where Tank was. It bothers me that you have to bring your issue to the whole forum instead of taking it to just the admins.

[Bretsky]

Mad,
Can you send me over some duplicate Latinas for the weekend ??

B

[Scott Campbell]

Unfortunately we would have to ban them. Everyone is aware of the fact that creating multiple accounts without a stated reason to the administrator or the mods is in danger of being banned.

And that helps explains why nobody has yet opened a Harlan Fuckleby account.

[SkinBasket]

POSITIVES OF MULIPLE ACCOUNTS
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Make joke posts (usually bad jokes)



NEGETIVES OF MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS
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Tool used to fuck with forum and its users





POSITIVES OF ALLOWING PEOPLE TO SHOOT OTHER PEOPLE
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Makes for good jokes



NEGETIVES OF ALLOWING PEOPLE TO SHOOT OTHER PEOPLE
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Tool used to kill people


As you can see my logic is irrefutable. Multiple accounts are bad.

[MadtownPacker]

Mad,
Can you send me over some duplicate Latinas for the weekend ??

B

Finally, a reasonable and well thought out request.

Of course my pale Packer brother!

But the carpet might not match the curtains! Might not even have any carpet at all!

[GBRulz]

this thread blows again; not even sure why it's being discussed.

This issue was considered in detail by everyone who wanted to give input long long ago and the rule was laid out. Naturally some will not agree; tha'ts cool. Everyone won't agree with every rule but it's the rule and should be respected by those in here.

I don't like the NFL Celebration rule either; but I still choose to watch the NFL. There could be rules in here I don't like; I still choose to post here.

Would be cool to move on now that we all agree there are diffences over a rule that isn't going to be changed and was considered in detail months ago.

I agree with B. Enough already or GJ is going to start his rant about allowing OT posts in the Packer forum!

[SkinBasket]

But the carpet might not match the curtains! Might not even have any carpet at all!

Can I get one without the curtains too?

[mraynrand]

Whether you agree with it or not, the matter was put to a vote here at PR, and membership was overwhelmingly against posters using multiple accounts.

The people have spoken.

You're right. But that doesn't change my position that I haven't heard one good argument against multiple accounts.

The only good argument against multiple accounts you need to hear is that our membership voted against it. And that makes all other arguments irrelevent at this point.

I've been involved with decisions here that I didn't initially agree with too. But once the decision is made by the vote, or by Mad and the admins - I get on board and support the decision and the site because that's what is best for our community. The time to make a difference with your input/arguments is before the vote. When you complain about it afterwards, it just sounds like sour grapes. It's counter productive.

I suggest you adopt a pet cause that is more constructive. We've wasted enough time on this. It's no big deal, and certainly not worth arguing over.

IMO

I'm not complaining about it. I just want to understand the logic, or lack thereof, behind it. Nutz gave a decent argument, but he, like others, seems to assume that a multiple login must correlate with bad behavior. I asked other specific questions, and your answers addressed none of them. If you don't want to address my specific questions, you're not obligated to respond.

I dispute your point that "The only good argument against multiple accounts you need to hear is that our membership voted against it. And that makes all other arguments irrelevent at this point." (Using this argument, no law on the books good or bad would ever be changed)

I would argue that many might enjoy multiple logins by the same person if they were clever and not mean spirited, just so long as any nasty guy using multiple logins could be easily rooted out.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I think the whole thing is it's easier to deal with somebody who would want to do harm to the forum by banning duplicate accounts than letting the cat of the bag and having to deal with the admin work that it would take to deal with them after they did the harm.

That's all I'm going to say about that.

Hell, I've raised a stink about getting something other than "Trailer Rat" and the Redneck Mexican won't listen to me, so I've moved on. That wasn't even put up to a damn vote.

[Zool]

How about

Because the guy running the ship said so

It might not be a perfect system, but its the system thats in place, and its about 6000% better than the alternative.